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The template for “This is Jeopardy” was downloaded
from www.NewYorkScienceTeacher.com .
The questions and answers were modified to be used
with SolarMax IMAX.
Many definitions and questions are from New York
State Grade 8 Intermediate-Level Science Test by
Edward J. Denecke, Jr., M.A., copyright 2006 by
Barrow’s Educational Series, Inc.
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(A-F) space (100-500)
THIS
IS
With Your
Host...
Ancient
Observers
The First
Theories
Telescopes
From Earth
Phenomena
Figured Out
Discoveries
From Space
Numerical
Facts
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This is the angle between
the horizon and an object
seen in the sky with the
observer at the vertex.
A 100
What is altitude?
A 100
This is June 21. In the
Northern Hemisphere, it is
when the altitude of the Sun at
noon stops increasing. It is the
longest day of the year.
A 200
What is summer solstice?
A 200
This is December 21. In the
Northern Hemisphere, it is
when the altitude of the Sun at
noon stops decreasing. It is
the shortest day of the year.
A 300
What is winter solstice?
A 300
This is March 21 and September 23,
when the Sun at noon is overhead
and days and nights are 12 hours.
A 400
What is an equinox?
A 400
This occurs when the moon passes
directly between the Earth and the
Sun, blocking our view of the Sun.
A 500
What is a solar eclipse?
A 500
This is the path that a revolving
object follows, such as the Moon
revolving around the Earth, and the
Earth revolving around the Sun.
B 100
What is an orbit?
B 100
This was an Egyptian astronomer
who thought the Earth is at the
center of our solar system and the
Sun and other planets revolve
around the Earth.
B 200
Who was Ptolemy?
B 200
This is the name of the model that
Ptolemy developed.
It is NOT correct. The Earth is not at
the center of our solar system and
the Sun and other planets do not
revolve around the Earth.
B 300
What is the geocentric model?
B 300
This was an astronomer who thought
the Sun is at the center of our solar
system and the Earth and other
planets revolve around the Sun.
B 400
Who was Copernicus?
B 400
This is the name of the model that
Copernicus developed.
It is correct. The Sun is at the
center of our solar system and the
Earth and other planets revolve
around the Sun.
B 500
What is the heliocentric model?
B 500
This is a change in the
position of two objects in
relation to one another.
The motion of an object is
always judged relative to
some other object or point.
C 100
What is relative motion?
C 100
This is the astronomer who invented
the telescope.
He agreed with Copernicus that the
heliocentric model is correct.
C 200
Who was Galileo?
C 200
This is the number of days it
takes for the Earth to revolve
around the Sun.
C 300
What is an Earth year?
C 300
DAILY
Place A Wager
DOUBLE
C 400
These are the 6 colors in visible light
that humans can see.
Hints:
Color is the sensation produced when
light waves strike the retina of the eye.
Not white, because white is a mixture of
all of these colors.
These 6 colors can be combined to
create thousands of colors.
C 400
What are:
red
orange
yellow
green
blue
violet
?
C 400
This is a colored glow around
and close to a shining body, such
as the Sun.
C 50
What is a corona?
C 500
This is the force of attraction that
exists between all matter.
It causes the moon to stay in its
orbit around the Earth and the
Earth around the Sun.
D 100
What is gravity?
D 100
This is a region of space around
a magnet in which magnetic
forces exist.
D 200
What is a magnetic field?
D 200
This is the transfer of heat from
electromagnetic waves that travel
through space.
Hint: Heat can be transferred from one
place to another in 3 ways: conduction,
radiation, and convection.
Examples: When you sit in front of a
campfire, you are warmed by heat
energy transferred from the fire to you.
We are warmed by the Sun in this way..
D 300
What is radiation?
D 300
These are light waves classified by
their wavelengths.
Most of the waves are visible light
and infrared.
Many different electromagnetic
waves come from the Sun because
it contains particles moving at many
different speeds.
D 400
What is the
electromagnetic spectrum?
D 400
These are lights in the sky created
when both the Sun and the Earth
emit magnetic fields at their poles
and ignite electrons in-between.
D 500
What is the aurora?
D 500
This is a cluster of billions of stars.
Our Sun is in the Milky Way.
E 100
What is a galaxy?
E 100
Matter can exist in four different states
called phases. Three we see on Earth:
liquid, solid and gas.
This is the 4th phase of matter. It is an
extremely hot, electrically charged,
gaseous material.
Stars, including our Sun, are made of
this. It makes up 99% of the visible
matter in the universe. It is rare on
Earth, found mainly in lightning,
fluorescent bulbs, and laboratories.E 200
What is plasma?
E 200
This is a peak of violence that
occurs when Sun’s southnorth magnetic poles reverse.
It occurs every 11 years with
unimaginable violence.
E 300
What is SolarMax?
E 300
This is an invisible magnetic shield
that protects us from deadly particles
that are thrown out by the Sun.
E 400
What is the
magnetosphere?
E 400
These are the elements that
the Sun is mainly composed of.
E 500
What are hydrogen and helium?
E 500
This is the distance
the Sun is from Earth.
F 100
What is 93 million miles?
F 100
This is how long it takes light from
the Sun to reach the Earth.
F 200
What is 8 minutes?
F 200
This is the age of the Sun.
F 300
What is 5 billion years?
F 300
This is the surface
temperature of the Sun.
F 400
What is 11,000° Fahrenheit?
F 400
This is how much stronger the Sun’s
gravity is than the Earth’s.
F 500
What is 28 times?
F 500
Final Jeopardy
These are the names of the
light waves in the
electromagnetic spectrum,
from longest to shortest.
What are: radio waves
microwaves
infrared light
visible light
ultraviolet light
x-rays
gamma rays
?
Thank You for Playing Jeopardy!
GOOD LUCK TOMORROW ON
YOUR EXAM!
Questions and answers provided by Kathleen McCarty.
Email: [email protected]